Dan Aykroyd has been in some absolutely terrible movies. John Candy has been in some absolutely terrible movies. Now they're in the same absolutely terrible movie.

| Jun 16, 2023

In short, "The Great Outdoors" has the wit of "Summer Rental" and the sparkle of "Harry and the Hendersons."

| Jun 16, 2023

"The Great Outdoors" succeeds as a perfect summer's movie: not too deep, not too long, not too verbally witty or politically witty, not too embarrassing, not too sexy. Just a good time in air conditioning.

| Jun 16, 2023

This possibly is the first time in cinematic history that raccoon-ese has been translated in subtitles.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 16, 2023

The sight of a bear running through the woods with bare buttocks probably has some superiors in the history of comedy. But not this week.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 16, 2023

John Hughes is the Crazy Eddie of movies aimed at teen-agers with nothing better to do.

| Jun 16, 2023

It's impossible to watch Candy and not laugh, even when the shtick is as stock as bear chases and bat combat.

| Jun 16, 2023

Like an early-summer fly, it can be brushed off easily.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 16, 2023

"The Dopey Outdoors" would be more like it.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 16, 2023

The family element in Great will appeal to people of all ages especially those with their own horror stories from family vacations.

| Jun 16, 2023

A generally good time for the viewer who is willing to swallow a dose of slapstick hooey.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 16, 2023

Candy and Aykroyd do what they can with this by-the-numbers picture, but it's not enough to push "The Great Outdoors" to greatness, or even pretty-goodness.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 16, 2023

The spots of slapstick are mixed up with domestic sitcom, the teenage son's fumbling romantic progress and familial sentiment to fuddling and tedious effect.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 16, 2023

The Aykroyd-Candy pairing is charmed.

| Jun 16, 2023

This movie has little character development, even less resolution, and an almost non-existent plot.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 16, 2023

Aykroyd and Candy, who can be hilarious, should have been choosier.

| Jun 16, 2023

The Great Outdoors has 99 ballots cast to make it the "Worst Movie of the Year". [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 22, 2022

...a decidedly familiar setup that's employed to watchable yet mostly forgettable effect...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 4, 2021

At the onset it seems that Candy, as in Uncle, plays the lower class half. Yet, by [Outdoors'] end we learn that the in-law is actually broke, essentially Cousin Eddie in disguise.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 7, 2011

Charming when it works, when it is based primarily in the interplay between characters or in the writer's unabashed nostalgia for a kind of cozy Americana.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 3, 2011